NJ teen athlete finds way to support BLM off the basketball court
MANCHESTER — By rejecting a star athlete's request to wear a basketball uniform shirt with "Black Lives Matter" on it, a school board actually brought the cause more awareness, according to the mother of Ocean County high schooler Destiny Adams. Adams, a senior at Manchester High School, and many of her teammates arrived at Tuesday's season opener basketball game wearing black hoodies that read "Black Lives Matter" across the front. It was an alternative and informal response after the warmup "shooting" shirt proposal was shot down by the Manchester Board of Education at a public meeting on...